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No. 609,453. Patented Aug. 23, |898. R. J. MOXLEY.

TYPE DISTRIBUTING MACHINE.

(Application filed May 2, 1896. 4Renewed July 21, 1898.)

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RICHARD J. MOXLEY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO TIIE EMPIRE y TYPESETTING MACHINE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

TYPE-DISTRIBUTING MACHINE.

SPEClFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 609,453, dated August23, 1898. Application led May 2, 18.96 Renewed .Tuly Z1, 1898. SerialNo. 686,534. (No model.) i

.To @ZZ whom it 11i/ty concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD J. MOXLEY, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and

' a resident of New York, (Brooklym) county of Kings, and State of NewYork, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inType-Distributing Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in typeldistributing machin es,and particularly to the removal of leads from a body of type in courseof distribution in type-distributing machines of the character of thoseinvented by Charles lV. Dickinson, William A. Lorenz, Louis K. Johnson,and others, and described and claimed in Letters Patent Nos. 174,900,174,915, and 526,106, and improved upon from time to time by me.

The-invention is particularly a device for automatically removing theleads from the body of type standing on the bed of the galley of themachine as the type isadvanced line by line for distribution.

In existing machines either no provision is made for the removal ofleads from the matter to be distributed and their removal has to beeffected by hand or else devices are employed which engage with andseize one edge of the lead and so cause the same to be removed from theline. The former method is a slow and tedious operation and subjects thebody of the type to the danger of becoming pied, and the second methodisapt to be extremely complicated and inefficient.

The object of the present invention is to providea simple and effectivedevice for automatically removing the leads from the body of type as itis presented line by line to the mechanism which distributes it.

The invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanyingtwo sheets of drawings, forming a part of this specification, in whichiFigure l is a plan view of the page-table of the ordinarytype-distributing machine of the character above described with thepresent invention applied thereto; Fig. 2, a vertical View, partlysectional and partly in elevation, lon the line 2 2 of Fig. 1;' Fig. 3,a vertical section on the line 3 3 of Fig. l; Fig. 4,

a view of the front plate of the machine, and Figs. 5, 6, 7, and 8 areviews of details.

Similar letters refer to similar parts th roughout the several views.

In the drawings, B represents the bed of the page-table; `J,thepage-follower, sliding upon the rod J 2.

d is a button to which is attached a cordv la, which passes over aloosepulley K2 and to the end of which a weight K is attached, whereby thepage-follower J will be kept continuously pressed against the page oftype, thus moving it forward as it is raised by the type-raiser line byline.

S is the line-follower, provided with a button c2, connected with a cordc, passing over a pulley c upon the frame of the machine gand attachedto a weight C, by means of page-table the front line of the type fromthe pageas p soon as it reaches the face of the page-table.

t is the line of type presented to the typefollower.

is the last letter at the end of the line. M and M are the two linesofcarriers. R is the removable plate against which the 4line of type israised, which may be adjusted to iit the different sizes of type used,as shown, for example, in Letters Patent No. 174,900.

AThe`line-raising mechanism consists of the plate T, which is attachedby the screws ases to the cross-head e2, and the vertical plunger Z andextends across the entire front of the page-table.

The various elements above described are common to all of the machinesof the above type, and they are operated in the manner described in saidpatents.

In the present type of machine the plate L, which closes the end of thepage-table and forms the wall which holds the line of type When liftedby the line-raiser T, is made of IOO the peculiar cross-section shown inFig. 2 and is provided with the two independent front faces L and L3.This plate is attached to the bed-plate by its rear surface, as shown inthe earlier patents. The plate is of the shape shown in plan view inFig. Il, and the surface L2 contains a beveled or countersunk slot l,Figs. 5 and 6, extending from one end of the plate almost to the other,as shown in plan, Fig. G. Along the inner edge of the countersunk andbeveled surface run the mortised grooves Z Z, cut longitudinally in theinner horizontal surfaces of the countersunk or beveled portion of theplate.

In the countersunk surface slides one of the tapering plates L3,provided with the lugs Z6, which slide in the grooves Z' and hold theplate L3 in position. The plates L3 are interchangeable and are ofdifferent thicknesses, according to the thickness of leads which .areemployed in the page of type which is to be distributed, and alsoadapted to fill the entire space when no leads are used. They areinserted in the countersunk portion of the plate L at the left-hand end,as shown in Fig. et, and slide freely in and out, and when in placeassume the position shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 6 and incross-section in Fig. 2. It will be apparent from Fig. 2 that when the plate L3 is in position there will be in all cases a certain distance,depending upon the thickness of the plate L3, between its outer face andthe outerface of the line-raiserT. This space is always sufficientlylarge to permit a lead to pass down between the lower surface L2 of theplate L and the line-raiser T and fall into any suitable receptacle.

The operation of the device is as follows: The page-follower J advancesthe line of type continuously, and while one line of type is beingforced into the carriers for distribution by the type-driver P it isheld upon the top of the plate T, which forms the line-raiser, betweenthe front surface L of the plate L and the rear surface of theadjustable rule R. While this is proceeding, the next line of type andthe lead, if there is a lead between the two lines, will have beenpushed by the page-follower against the inner surface of the plate T,the lead and the line of type still resting on the bed B of thepage-table. When the line which has been previously raised has beenforced into the carriers, the mechanism of the machine withdraws theline-raiser to the position shown in Fig. 2, and the pagefollowerimmediately pushes the lead and a single line of type over the edge ofthe bedplate B and upon the top of the plate T. There being a spacebetween the front face of the beveled plate L3 and the inner face of theline-raiser T, the lead will be pushed by the page-follower over theedge of the plate T, and the lead will be forced into the space L4,which by reason of the size of the plate L3 used will be sufficientlylarge to permit the lead to pass entirely over the line-raiser T andleave the line of type resting on the line-raiser. Thereupon theline-raiser T will immediately risc and raise the line of.type, and thespace will fall between the lower face L2 of the plate L and the innerface of the lineraiser into any suitable receptacle. The lineraiser willhold the line of type thus raised until it has been entirely dischargedinto the carrier, whereupon the mechanism will depress the line-holderand the same operation will be repeated.

In Fig. 2 a beveled plate L3, inserted in the plate L, is shown ofthinness sufficient to permit the largest lead which can be used in thisparticular machine t'o drop out of the line. When larger leads are used,all that is necessary is for the operator to stop the machine, pull outthe plate L3 a little, as shown in Fig. 4, and set it by turning thevertical set-screw Z3 in the screw-thread opening Z9, or he can, ifdesired, in sert a thinner plate. In this way all sizes of leads fromthe thickest down may be removed without difficulty. In case no leadsare used in the type or have been removed a slide of sufficientthickness to entirely fill the space can be used.

As will be seen by reference to Figs. 3, 4, 5, and 6, the ends of theplate L are carefully mortised and cut out on the inner surface, so thatthe plate T of the line-raiser may work easily up and down, and byadjusting plate L3 carefully, so as to provide the appropriate spacejust sufficient to allow the desired lead to be removed and no more, theline of type can be always raised by the line-raiser withoutbeingin anyway interfered with or moved out of line, and yet at the same time thelead will be pushed over the edge of the line-raiser T in such a way asto drop through the space provided for it.

Various other details shown in the drawings are not necessary to bedescribed here and are shown merely for the purpose of indicating therelation of the present invention to existing machines. As in theearlier machines, the plate T is made adjustable upon the cross-head,and the rule R is made adjustable to the upper faceof the plate L, inorder to permit type of varying size to be distributed.

I claim as my inventionl. The combination of the page-table, theline-raising plate, the page-follower, and the back plate countersunk onits front face opposite the line-raising plate, whereby, when the latteris raised a space is left between its rear face and the front face ofthe back plate.

2. The combination of the page-table, the line-raising plate, thepage-follower, the back plate countersunk on its front face asdescribed, and a movable plate forming the face of the countersunkportion.

3. The combination of the page-table, the line-raising plate, thepage-follower, the back plate countersunk on its front face asdescribed, and a movable plate forming the face of the countersunkportion, sliding in a slot cut in the countersunk face of the backplate.

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4. The combination of the page-table, the line-raising plate, thepage-follower, the back plate counter-sunk on its front face asdescribed, and a movable sliding plate forming the face of that part ofthe conntersunk portion of the back plate which is opposite the line oftype on the page-table.

5. The combination of the page-table, the line-raising plate, thepagefollo\ver, the back plate countersunk on its front face asdescribed, and a movable plate arranged to slide in a slot in that partof the conntersunk face of the back plate which is opposite to the lineof type on the page-table.

6. The combination of the page-table, the line-raising plate,thepage-follower, the back plate conntersnnk on its front face asdescribed, and a movable plate tapered on its rear face, arranged toslide in a correspondingly-tapered slot in the conntersunk face of theback plate.

7. The combination of the page-table, the back plate countersunk on itsfront face as described, a movable plate tapered on its rear face,provided With suitable shoulders upon which it slides, and acorrespondingly-tapered slot, provided with suitable grooves on theedges of the slot, in the counter-sunk face of the back plate.

8. The combination of the page-table, the line-raisin g plate, thepage-follower, the back plate conntersnnk on its front face asdcscribed,a movable plate tapered onits rear face and arranged to slide in acorrespondingly-tapered slot cut longitudinally in the countersunk faceof the back plate, and means substantially as described, for holding theplate at any desired poi-nt in the slot.

9. The combination of the page-table, the line-raisin g plate, thepage-follower, the back plate countersunk on its front face .asdescribed opposite to the line-raising plate, a movable plate tapered onits rear face and arranged to slide in a correspondingly-tapered slotcut longitudinally in the conntersunk face of. the back plate, andmeans, substantially as described, for holding the plate at any desiredpoint in the slot.

lO. The combination of the page-table, the line-raising plate, thepage-follower, the back plate countersunk on its front face opposite tothe line-raising plate and containing in the countersunk portion atapering slot, and a series of adjustable and interchangeable platesarranged to be inserted therein for the purposes set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed myname, in presence of two Witnesses, this 30th day of April, 1896. n

BICI-IARD J. `MOXLEYI Witnesses:

HENRY H. GRAFF, JOHN FRENCH.

